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City police blog disappoints visitors

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July 24, 2013
Mangalore, Jul 24: Though it was created with the intention of disseminating news about crime in Mangalore city limits regularly to interested patrons, the blog of Mangalore City Police has been irregular in its updates from some time.
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To provide information on different crimes that have occurred in the district such as murder, robbery, burglary, extortion or rape, the then-Superintendent of Police B Dayananda had launched the blog of Dakshina Kannada district police on December 8, 2005.

Then, the blog also played a role in the district becoming a pioneer in the use of modern technology in disseminating information to people.

When the Mangalore Commissionerate came into existence with the installation of Seemanth Kumar as Mangalore City Police Commissioner in 2011, a separate blog was created specifically for updating crime news occurring in city limits.

However, the Mangalore City Police blog has become inactive and lagged behind in its updates compared to its district police counterpart. Although regular so far, the city blog saw only 16 posts in the month of June compared to 31 posts in the blog of district police.

More astonishing, the city blog contains a lone post, while the district blog has regular posts numbering 24 in July, i.e. one for each day.

The city blog holds a single post for the month of July, featuring the portrait of a suspect in the recent Moodbidri Jain temple theft case, which is disappointing to say the least.

After a post was updated on June 29, the next one was dated July 7, and no posts were updated since. No information has been provided on the theft case that took place at the Jain temple in Moodbidri in which precious idols and diamonds worth crores of rupees were stolen and the subsequent arrests.

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The status of the blog in question has exposed the working of the city police department. Even the past updates in the blog have been posted after a couple of days.

Even if the department claims shortage of personnel to keep the blog active, there are some who question if it was right to stop updating information on the blog.

Expectations proved wrong

People of Mangalore were of the opinion that the working of city police would improve once the Commissionerate was formed. However, these expectations were not to be met. Even if the number of police officers in the city police department has increased, the graph of crime rate has not gone down. Crime still continues unabated in the city, with the general feeling among the public that criminals do not fear the police system in the district.

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March 31,2020

Bengaluru, Mar 31: Venkara Raghava, a software engineer from Bengaluru, who was infected with the coronavirus has recovered and is currently "doing perfectly well".

"I am doing perfectly well now. I had travelled to Los Angeles via Heathrow airport and that is when I came in contact with many travellers. I might have picked up the infection there," Raghava told news agency.

It was in Los Angeles when he started getting a 'low-grade fever' which led him to prepone his flight to Bengaluru. "When I landed back in Bengaluru on March 8, I had a fever and I isolated myself. The same day I went to a hospital where my travel history was taken and I tested positive for COVID-19", he said.

The next day, he was admitted to the isolation centre. His entire family was also tested but the results came back negative.

When asked about what does suffering from COVID-19 feel like, he responded that it was a like a regular viral fever and was "nothing to be scared of". "The fever is very grinding, and since my childhood, I never had a fever. I had a fever for almost 15 days consistently 100 degrees (F)," he said.

About his experience at the isolation centre, he said that it was an experience unlike that of a hospital. "At the isolation centre, one has to take care of themselves, unlike a hospital where doctors and nurses take care of the patient. I had to put a wet cloth on myself and you cannot overdose yourself with Calpol or Paracetamol," he said.

For him, "The tough times are now over" and now he has fully recovered but in the process, he ended up losing about five kilograms. "After the fifteenth day when I woke up with no fever, they took a test for the nose and the throat and it came back negative," he recalled, and on March 22, he was set free.

For one week, he has been in self-quarantine at home "being completely watchful" that the symptoms do not reoccur.

The number of total coronavirus cases reached 1,251 on Monday. There are 1117 active cases in the country, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

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April 29,2020

Mangaluru, Apr 29: District in-charge Minister Kota Srinivas Poojary on Wednesday inaugurated a mobile fever clinic to cure COVID-19 patients.

Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) has converted one of its buses into a clinic in Mangaluru to treat COVID-19 patients.

The mobile fever clinic has a bed for the patient and a cabin for the doctor. There is also a seating facility, medicine box, wash-basin, sanitizer, soap oil, a separate water facility, and fans.

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February 26,2020

Mysuru, Feb 26: Twenty-nine students of the Government Primary School fell sick after consuming milk supplied at the school on Wednesday morning at Kiranguru village, in Hanagodu hobli, in the hunsur taluk in the district.

Police said the students were immediately rushed to the primary health centre in Hanagodu and provided first aid.

Tahsildar and Police personnel visited the health centre and inquired about the health of the students. "All the students are responding to the treatment," sources said.

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